Sentences with phrase «black communities do»

Black communities don't need used car salespeople; they need great transportation and schools.

Ultimately, the author has some tough questions to pose, such as «What is the point of electing African - Americans to high office if their ties to the black community do not bind them tightly enough to black causes?»

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Noting the Democratic Party's political dominance in black communities, Trump asked of black Americans, «What do you have to lose by trying something new like Trump?»

And two: The money that does make it into black communities, she argues, doesn't stay there long enough because people just aren't spending it where they live.

«This decision by the federal government is an important positive step towards the project ultimately moving forward, but there is still a lot of work to be done to satisfy the interests of communities and the First Nations,» said Black.

«We see this as a clear indication that the business community does not like uncertainty,» said Iain Black, President and CEO of the Greater Vancouver Board of Trade.

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Frazier, and in this matter, DuBois, while acknowledging such elements did not see these elements of ultimate significance, for they could not see these forms playing an important role in the social cohesion of the black community» (S 175).

I am white and I supported President Obama in both elections as did many other white voters so it wasen't just the black community that got President Obama elected..

He acts like Civil Rights is something that just belongs to Africian Americans and the LGBT community is trying to take them away.What difference does it make that the President is half white and half black?

Do they really think that the Repubs have the black community at heart?

The black community has less than they did have before Obama took office.Just REMEMBER this!

Truth is, I don't think the Black community has any more issues, other then white cops shooting at them,, afterall, the president is Black.

He addressed the Sanford City Commission asking them to respond to the black community and was the only white member of the clergy to do so.

To advocate self - help, to argue that affirmative action can not be a long - run solution to the problem of racial inequality, to suggest that some of what is transpiring in black communities reflects a spiritual malaise, to note that fundamental change will require that individual lives be transformed in ways that governments are ill - suited to do, to urge that we must look to how black men and women are relating to each other, how parents are bringing up their children, that we have to ask ourselves what values inform the behavior of our youth» to do these things is not to take a partisan position, or vent some neoconservative ideological screed.

Since the church was so much a part of the whole of black life, I had to ask: What has the gospel of God to do with the extreme limits placed on the black community?

Yet even effective jobs programs do not fully address the cultural decay and moral disintegration of poor black communities.

This negative reaction to black conservatives by most blacks partly explains the reluctance of the new black conservatives to engage in public debates in the black community, and their contrasting eagerness to do so in the mass media, where a few go so far as to portray themselves as courageous, embattled critics of a black liberal establishment — while their salaries, honorariums and travel expenses are paid by well - endowed conservative foundations and corporations.

He expected to go to Harvard or Amherst as others from his community usually did, but he learned to his surprise that it had been determined to send him to Fisk University, an all - black institution in Nashville, Tennessee.

Why don't these ministers deal with gun violence, drugs, HIV / AIDS, and runaway father in the black community first?

From this verse we can then determine that flint meant black in a way that those who do not follow the counsel of the priest and were on such a level of «scratching and biting» as were the brothers of Nephi could receive a curse of being exiled from the people of God and a transformation would come on them which would make them look unpleasant to those who kept the commandments of God so they would not want to be a part of their communities.

So when a black student at a Connecticut high school was disciplined in 1996 for wearing pants that drooped (exposing his underwear), not only did he claim a right to wear what he liked, but some community leaders hinted at racism, on the theory that many young African - American males dress this way.

Will the black community blindly defend him like they did OJ?

Do you really think that your agenda is what black community, as a whole, is concerned about?

Why don't these black pastors focus on something that actually will impact the black community?

Two years ago, the Czechs were in the streets of Prague facing Russian tanks, not because of compassion for human want and misery, but because they were not free; the Vietnamese continue to resist America, as they did Japan and France before us, not because of hunger for food but hunger to determine their own destinies; black militants are in the streets of our cities today, not because they are famished — though poverty and want still stalk our land, particularly black communities — but because black citizens, more than any others, have been politically isolated and impotent, unable to act in their own governance.

So putting an alleged Black female out from does not sway the African American Community not one bit.

I don't understand the hatred between some blacks and the Jewish community because I remember the Levys and I remember the great rabbi who stood with D. A. Holmes in Kansas City way before Martin Luther King, Jr., brought that kind of ecumenicity.

Even though the first wide receiver in this draft didn't come off the board until the 14th overall pick in our Silver & Black Pride community mock draft, in the span of ten picks we've now seen...

Newton's comments leading up to the Panthers game and protest reflected him wanting to bring unity, but said his desire for accountability applied to both the black community and police officers and that there was a state of oppression in the black community but also that «as black people, we have to do right by ourselves.

One of the greatest lies that has been repeatedly perpetuataed in our community is that black women don't need anyone but themselves.

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ICYM the second item in my DN column this morning: When he gets done shoring up his support with black voters, Democratic gubernatorial frontrunner Andrew Cuomo may have to do damage control with the gay community.

As the Obama presidency has unfolded, it seems it has been a mixture of both; nevertheless, the fact that Obama did not run for election as a Black candidate (despite winning over 90 % of the votes of the African American community) but rather ran a strategically race - neutral campaign is a testament to the complicated relationship the United States has with race.

He talks about how the African - American community's illegitimacy rate has reached 70 percent, But he does not touch on the fact that Black women are less likely to have an abortion than White women.

The black community would have had no qualms telling Clinton, «If you want our votes, you'd better pursue this» ─ but we aren't doing this to Obama.

However, there has been a recent narrative in the black community that has made me uncomfortable in that it doesn't recognize the extent to which Latinos are also profiled, depending on what part of the country they're in.

Gillibrand spent considerable time wooing the labor - backed party along with other so - called «progressive» interests (the LGBT community, black and Latino stakeholders etc.) Her initial selection by Gov. David Paterson to fill the seat vacated by former Sen. Hillary Clinton was met with considerable skepticism — and, in some cases, flat - out hostility — from a number of key liberal figures, who subsequently either considered challenging her in a primary themselves or encouraged others to do so.

«We don't have the kind of forces in the community that we had before, in other words, our black media outlets,» the Democratic governor continued.

In an open letter to the Democratic gubernatorial candidate, Tatum warned the AG that he «can not do this without the help of the Black community, and you will not get that help just for being a Cuomo.»

And it's likely to have done serious damage to the governing Conservative party's relationship with Britain's black Caribbean communities.

Black Westchester Magazine presents People Before Politics Radio Episode 91 With Damon K. Jones and AJ Woodson Guests: Lorraine Lopez, Hector Santiago, Samuel L. Rivers and Helena Edwards Topic: «Black and Brown Political Power», why we don't have it in our communities in Westchester County and how do we get it.

Additionally, a water transmission project will be done to distribute water from rivers Oti, the Black and White Volta to communities for productive cultivation,» he said.

I hope that some of these «black leaders» told Cuomo that illegal immigrants are hurting their community, and they don't want amnesty.

Continue reading «Gavin Barwell MP: What can Conservatives do to increase our support among black and minority ethnic communities?»»

Yesterday I argued that if the Conservative Party doesn't increase its support among Britain's black and minority ethnic (BME) communities then in the medium to long term it will cease to be a party capable of winning general elections.

What good does it do our community (by this I mean Black and Hispanic people) to have uncle Tom N ---- bitches like you graduate from Ivy League schools if all you do is suck the c — of guys like Mark Levine.

On the other hand, Bill and Hillary, Wall Street, Welfare Reform, and Prison Privatization have done wonders for the black community, yes, Mr. Rangel?

«What destroys communities is when low - income black and brown families are forced to suck it up and live with schools that don't work for their children,» Bellafiore said.

Atlanta Black LGBT Coalition: «Rev. Warren's hateful opposition to civil rights for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people and reproductive rights for women, and his intolerance of diversity contradict the values of freedom and equality that this day represents... Bestowing Rev. Warren such a prominent role does not foster greater understanding between divided communities.